Text Complexity

Measuring Text Complexity--3 factors

Text Complexity Grade Bands and Lexile Bands

• Currently using "stretch" bands

Destiny Online Catalog

Find a book's lexile level:

• Look the book up by title
• Look at the bottom of the brief information for lexile level
• To find all the books in a lexile level range
  • Select Lexile as reading program at the bottom of the library search page
  • Type in a range in the Lexile Measure search boxes
  • You can narrow by subject--fantasy, mystery, etc.
• Lexile.com
  • Lexile Analyzer
    • Register /Login
    • Save as a Text file
    • Can only be 1000 words

Finding Non-Fiction Texts That Complement Novels

• Some resources
• Examples of non-fiction texts
• Texts from Gates CC Curriculum Maps (in navigation bar)

Webpath Express Database--Online Catalog

• Webpath Express--located in the green navigation bar to the left of the catalog
• Filters the internet
  • Saves time because it sifts out most commercial sites
  • Provides reliable information (paid database)
• 

  Fleisch-Kincaid Readability 07-11.pdf
  

  • Details
  • Download
  • 649 KB

Utah Online Library--online research helps students discover resources!

• World Book
• GALE Research Center
• EBSCO Student Research Center and EBSCO>College/University>Academic Search Premier
• Culturegrams--detailed information about states and countries
• Can find lexile levels of various texts
• Descriptors--lead you to other articles
• Utah's Online Library Activites

• Utah Online Library ideas for Elementary Students

Browsing for Articles:

• EBSCO Alerts